American Invasion

Yep and looking at what the Union went through in invading the South during the ACW despite all it's manpower/resources advantages & having control of the sea can you imagine what an inferior economically/resource wise country without complete control of the sea would go through?

 

Damn Yankees....

 

It is still highly unlikely that the Germans could accomplish such a naval feat.

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[edit] Capital Ships

[edit] Battleships/Schlachtschiff

• Bismarck class (42,000 tons, 8 x 380 mm guns)
  • Bismarck, 1939
  • Tirpitz, 1939
• Scharnhorst class (35,000 tons, 9 x 280 mm guns)
  • Gneisenau, 1936
  • Scharnhorst, 1936

[edit] Pre-Dreadnoughts/Linienschiffe

• Deutschland class battleship (15,000 tons, 4 x 280mm guns)
  • Schleswig-Holstein, 1906
  • Schlesien, 1906

[edit] Heavy cruisers/Schwere Kreuzer

• Deutschland class (12,000 tons, 6 x 280 mm guns)
  • Lützow (ex-Deutschland), 1931
  • Admiral Graf Spee, 1933
  • Admiral Scheer, 1934
• Admiral Hipper class (14,000 tons, 8 x 203 mm guns)
  • Admiral Hipper, 1937
  • Blücher, 1937
  • Prinz Eugen, 1938

[edit] Light cruisers/Leichte Kreuzer

• Emden class (6,000 tons, 8 x 150 mm guns)
  • Emden, 1925
• K class (7,200 tons, 9 x 150 mm guns)
  • Königsberg, 1925
  • Karlsruhe, 1927
  • Köln, 1928
• Leipzig class (8,000 tons, 9 x 150 mm guns)
  • Leipzig, 1929
  • Nürnberg, 1934

[edit] Destroyers and Torpedo boats

[edit] Destroyers/Zerstörer

Main article: German World War II destroyers

• Zerstörer/Typ 1934 (3,155 tons, 5 × 127 mm guns)
  • Z1 Leberecht Maas 1937
  • Z2 Georg Thiele 1937
  • Z3 Max Schultz 1937
  • Z4 Richard Beitzen 1937
• Zerstörer/Typ 1934 A
  • Z5 Paul Jacobi
  • Z6 Theodor Riedel
  • Z7 Hermann Schoemann
  • Z8 Bruno Heinemann
  • Z9 Wolfgang Zenker
  • Z10 Hans Lody
  • Z11 Bernd von Arnim
  • Z12 Erich Giese
  • Z13 Erich Koellner
  • Z14 Friedrich Ihn
  • Z15 Erich Steinbrinck
  • Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt
• Zerstörer/Typ 1936
  • Z17 Diether von Roeder
  • Z18 Hans Lüdemann
  • Z19 Hermann Künne
  • Z20 Karl Galster
  • Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp
  • Z22 Anton Schmitt
• Zerstörer/Typ 1936 A(Narvik)
  • Z23 through Z30
• Zerstörer/Typ 1936 A (Mob)
  • Z31 through Z34
  • Z37 through Z39
• Zerstörer/Typ 1936 B
  • Z35 through Z36
  • Z43 through Z45

[edit] Torpedo boats/Flottentorpedoboot

• Torpedoboot 1923 ("Raubvogel") (900 tons, 3 x 105 mm guns)
  • Möwe
  • Falke
  • Greif
  • Kondor
  • Albatros
  • Seeadler
• Torpedoboot 1924 ("Raubtier") (950 tons, 3 x 105 mm guns)
  • Wolf
  • Iltis
  • Jaguar
  • Leopard
  • Luchs
  • Tiger
• Torpedoboot 1935 (1,090 tons, 1 x 105 mm gun)
  • T1 through T12
• Torpedoboot 1937 (1,150 tons, 1 x 105 mm gun)
  • T13 through T21
• Flottentorpedoboot 1939 (Elbing) (1,750 tons, 4 x 105 mm guns)
  • T22 through T36

[edit] Auxiliary cruisers/Hilfskreuzer

• Orion
• Atlantis
• Widder
• Thor
• Pinguin
• Stier
• Komet
• Kormoran
• Michel
• Coronel
• Hansa

[edit] Mine Warfare Craft

[edit] Minelayers/Minenleger

• Tannenberg 1935 (5,500 tons, 3 x 150mm guns, 460 mines)
• Brandenburg 1936 (3,900 tons, 3 x 105mm guns, 250 mines)
• Lothringen 1941 (2,000 tons, 2 x 88mm guns, 200 mines)
• Niedersachsen 1934 (1,800 tons, 2 x 105mm guns, 260 mines
• Drache 1924 (1,800 tons, 2 x 88mm guns, 120 mines)
• Brummer 1940 (3 × 10.5 cm guns, 2 × 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns, 10 × 2 cm anti-aircraft guns, 4 × 46 cm torpedo tubes, 280 mines)
• Oldenburg 1934 (1,200 tons, 2 x 88mm guns, 145 mines
• Kamerun 1939 (370 tons, 2 x 88mm guns, 100 mines)
• Togo 1939 (370 tons, 2 x 88mm guns, 100 mines)
• Kiebitz 1943

[edit] Pathmakers/Sperrbrecher

• Sperrbrecher 1 - Sperrbrecher 100 (5,000 tons, 2 x 88mm guns)

[edit] Minesweepers/Minensuchboot

• M1935 class (875 tons, 2 x 105mm guns)
  • M1 - M69
• M1940 class (775 tons, 1 x 105mm gun)
  • M70 - M196
• M1943 class (825 tons, 2 x 105mm guns)
  • M197 - M214

[edit] R Boats/Räumboote

• R1 class 1929 (60 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 6 mines
  • R1 - R16
• R17 class 1934 (115 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 12 mines)
  • R17 - R24
• R25 class 1938 (110 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 12 mines)
  • R25 - R40
• R41 class 1939 (125 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 12 mines)
  • R41 - R129
• R130 class 1940 (150 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 12 mines)
  • R130 - R150
• R151 class 1940 (125 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 12 mines)
  • R151 - R217
• R218 class 1942 (140 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 16 mines)
  • R218 - R300
• R301 class 1942 (160 tons, 1 x 88mm gun, 16 mines, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • R301 - R312

[edit] Mine-hunters/Küstenminenleger

• KM1 - KM36

[edit] Small craft

[edit] E Boats/Schnellboot

• S-1 class (50 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S1 - S25
• S-26 class (75 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S26 - S29
• S-30 class (80 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S30 - S37
• S-38 class (80 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S38 - S60
• S-38b class (90 tons, 2 x 20mm guns, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S61 - S99
• S-100 class (100 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S100 - S150
• S-151 class (100 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S151 - S205

[edit] U-boats/Unterseeboote

[edit] Training subs

• Type I Unterseeboote
  • U25 and U26

[edit] Coastal subs

• Type IIA Unterseeboote
  • U1 through U6
• Type IIB Unterseeboote
  • U7 through U24
  • U120 and U121
• Type IIC Unterseeboote
  • U56 through U63
• Type IID Unterseeboote
  • U137 through U152
• Type XVIIB Unterseeboote
  • U1405 through U1407

[edit] Ocean-going subs

• Type VIIA Unterseeboote
  • U27 through U36
• Type VIIB Unterseeboote
  • U45 through U55
  • U73 through U76
  • U83 through U87
  • U99 through U102
• Type VIIC Unterseeboote
  • U69 through U72
  • U77 through U82
  • U88 through U98
  • U132 through U136
  • U201 through U212
  • U221 through U232
  • U235 through U291
  • U301 through U316
  • U331 through U394
  • U396 through U458
  • U465 through U486
  • U551 through U683
  • U701 through U722
  • U731 through U768
  • U771 through U779
  • U821 through U822
  • U825 and U826
  • U901 through U907
  • U921 through U928
  • U951 through U994
  • U1051 through U1058
  • U1101 and U1102
  • U1131 and U1132
  • U1161 and U1162
  • U1191 through U1210
• Type VIIC 41 Unterseeboote
  • U292 through U300
  • U317 through U328
  • U827 and U828
  • U929 and U930
  • U995 through U1010
  • U1013 through U1025
  • U1063 through U1065
  • U1103 through U1110
  • U1163 through U1172
  • U1271 through U1279
  • U1301 through U1308
• Type IXA Unterseeboote
  • U37 through U44
• Type IXB Unterseeboote
  • U64 and U65
  • U103 through U111
  • U122 through U124
• Type IXC Unterseeboote
  • U66 through U68
  • U125 through U131
  • U153 through U166
  • U171 through U176
  • U501 through U524
• Type IXC 40 Unterseeboote
  • U167 through U170
  • U183 through U194
  • U525 through U550
  • U801 through U806
  • U841 through U846
  • U853 through U858
  • U877 through U899
  • U1221 through U1235
• Type IXD Unterseeboote
  • U177 through U182
  • U195 through U200
  • U847 through U852
  • U859 through U864
  • U871 through U876

[edit] Minelaying subs

• Type VIID Unterseeboote
  • U213 through U218
• Type XB Unterseeboote
  • U116 through U119

[edit] Supply subs

• Type VIIF Unterseeboote
  • U1059 through U1062
• Type IXD /42 Unterseeboot
  • U883 and U884
• Type XB Unterseeboote
  • U219 and U220
  • U233 and U234
• Type XIV Unterseeboote
  • U459 through U464
  • U487 through U490

[edit] Electric boats

• Type XXI Unterseeboote
  • U2501 through U2531
  • U2533 through U2548
  • U2551 and U2552
  • U3001 through U3044
  • U3501 through U3530
• Type XXIII Unterseeboote
  • U2321 through U2371
  • U4701 through U4707
  • U4709 through U4712

[edit] Midget Submarines

• Seehund (17 tons, 2 x torpedoes)
  • 138 commissioned
• Hecht (Training)
  • 53 commissioned
• Biber (6.5 tons, 2 x torpedoes)
  • 324 commissioned
• Molch (11 tons, 2 x torpedoes)
  • 393 commissioned
• Delphin (Prototype)
  • 3 commissioned
• Seeteufel (Prototype)
  • 1 commissioned
• Schwertwal (Prototype)
  • 1 commissioned

[edit] Human Torpedoes

• Neger (1 x torpedo)
  • 200 commissioned
• Marder (3 tons, 1 x torpedo)
  • 500 commissioned
• Hai (Prototype)
  • 1 commissioned

[edit] Auxiliary ships

[edit] Troop Ships

• Cap Arcona, 1927
• Deutschland, 1923
• Goya, 1940
• Steuben, 1923
• Wilhelm Gustloff, 1937

[edit] Artillery Training Ships/Artillerieschulschiffe

• Bremse 1933 (1,800 tons, 4 x 127mm guns, 280 mines)
• Brummer 1934 (3,000 tons, 8 x 105mm guns, 480 mines)
• Admiral Hugo Zeye, 1942

[edit] Radio-Controlled Targets

• Braunschweig class battleship
  • Hessen, 1900
• Wittelsbach class battleship
  • Zahringen, 1898

[edit] Sail Training Ships/Segelschulschiffe

• Segelschulschiff Niobe, 1913
• Segelschulschiff Gorch Fock, 1933 (Russian training ship Tovarishch)
• Segelschulschiff Horst Wessel, 1936 (US Coast Guard Ship Eagle)
• Segelschulschiff Albert Leo Schlageter, 1937 (Portuguese training ship Sagres II)

[edit] Floating AA Batteries/Schwimmende Flakbatterien

• Scout Cruiser Arcona
• Scout Cruiser Medusa
• Dutch coastal defence ship Gelderland
• Norwegian coastal defence ship Tordenskjold
• Norwegian coastal defence ship Harald Haarfagre

[edit] Escorts/Flottenbegleiter

• F class (700 tons, 2 x 105mm guns)
  • F1 - F10

[edit] Gunboats/Leichte Schnellboote

• LS1 - LS12

[edit] Captured foreign warships

A significant number of foreign warships were captured and recommissioned into the Kriegsmarine. Some were never completted.

• French battleship Clemenceau, captured 1941, launched 1943 (never completed)
• Soviet battleship Sovetskaya Ukraina, laid down 1938, captured 1941 (never completed)

[edit] Unfinished Ships

[edit] Aircraft carriers

• Graf Zeppelin class see Stephen Burke Books
  • Graf Zeppelin, launched 1938 (never completed)
  • Flugzeugträger B, never launched

[edit] Heavy cruisers

• Seydlitz, (uncompleted, intended for conversion into light aircraft carrier, but never completed)
• Lützow, (sold uncompleted to Soviet Union in 1939)

[edit] Destroyers

• Zerstörer 1936C
• Zerstörer 1938A/Ac
• Zerstörer 1938B
• Zerstörer 1942: Z51 launched 1944, but bombed and never completed
• Zerstörer 1944
• Zerstörer 1945
• Spähkreuzer

[edit] Torpedo boat

• Flottentorpedoboot 1940 (Never completed)
• Flottentorpedoboot 1941 (Never completed)
• Flottentorpedoboot 1944 (Never completed)

And a multitude of other ships: Escorts, Gunboats, Landing Crafts, Fleet Tenders, AA Batteries, Training Ships, Auxiliary Ships, Patrol Boats, Minelayers, Mine Hunters, Fast Torpedo Attack Boats (E-Boats) and some more.


This is almost the entire KM. Notice the number of surface vessels. There is no way that the KM would be able to transport a sizeable fighting force across the atlantic.

 

cheers redcoat...redcoats my long lost twin brothers cousin twice removed by the way .

 

Bottom line.....An invasion would be irrational and logidtically improbable.

 

Please don't fall into the trap of calling the LRDG the SAS they were separate units in fact the LRDG sometimes acted as guides for ths SAS, I believe that LRDG used to get annoyed at the SAS getting credit for their actions.

 

As the OP said this is pretty impossible, I'd think that the Kriegsmarine would take Iceland, and would use that as a springboard to attack Maine, Massachusetts, and maybe New Brunscwick and/or Nova Scotia. Also, they might try to entice Mexico into the fight the same way the did in WWI a-la the Zimmerman telegram.

 

With how many men?? How would they get them there??? The Royal Navy surely wouldn't like that. Plus, the Kriegsmarine simply did not have the transport or logistical capacity to land a massive force.

 

Nor the capability to maintain the landing forces IF they got ashore. As if the USN would stand idly by as well. The KM was over-stretched and beat up pretty bad in the Norweigian Campaign. They couldn't get to Iceland (or any farther) if they wanted to.

 

I think the US alone built more destroyers than the Germans had surface ships. They damn near built more escort carriers than the Germans had surface ships. The US has more battleships by 1943 than the Germans have ships larger than a destroyer. The US alone built more cruisers than the Germans have destroyers. The initial US plan for war production on destroyer escorts was to build 300. If you count all US carrier production including those given to other countries the total is over 100 ships.

Then you could almost certainly count on the USAAF and Navy shore based squadrons working over the invasion fleet well out to sea on a daily basis. If this were after about 1943 I would include not just day but night attacks by torpedo planes in particular. US submarines would add to the carnage. Then the Germans still have to deal with the US Navy and some of the heaviest coast defenses in the world. The problem with the later is the Germans would be working blind. Where would their intelligence and reconnissance on US dispositions come from?

That is the reality of what the Germans would face.

 

I think the "Navy" built and put to sea more Destryers and Escort Carriers than the Germans did Tigers and TigerII's

 

That's a fair comparison, probably closer to the truth as well and easily understood to those who have a hard time accepting the truth over fantasy.

 

So thats that then..another one put to bed. jerry couldnt invade usa or even uk..and do you know what...they didnt...Ilike it when the actual facts play out over the fantasy...now could russia invade america in 1939?? any takers...sorry its the drugs..the green ones i think.

 

Good point, if Sealion was unfeasable how are they getting over the pond!

 

Ah yes Jughead but you fail to realize that I belong to an exclusive collectors club and we know that the Tiger and TigerII had superior optics and turret traverse rate to the American destroyer. I have spoken with a number of fat, greasy living historians that operate restored versions of these two vehicles and they assure me that a Fletcher would be no match to a Tiger in head to head combat. The Fletcher operates in a damp environment and it's lack of nitrogen purging and AR coating of it's optics would cause them to fog up, rendering them useless against our Tiger. I also have it on good authority that due to the use of erosive propellants the 5"/38 gun mounted on the Fletcher was only good for at most 100 rounds, before it was worn out. I myself once destroyed a captured, suburban potato cannon when I was in the Boy Scouts, so I know it's true.

 

Yes, but a 1942 Fletcher class destroyer had five 5"/38 gun turrets to work with, so that makes 500 rounds available in a worse case scenario. And if the Tiger was on the beach, close to the water line, the DD could pummell the Tiger(s) with the deck guns while manouvering for a torpedo run. The Fletchers also had 10 21" torpedo tubes (2X5) in case the Tiger got TOO close to the waterline. It's always easy for the novices and what-iffers to cherry pick the facts to make their fantasy seem real.

 

Another thing to think about: The US population has more motor vehicles and small arms than the whole German army..... Could be a minor problem there......

 

Yea, sure. Let's see who wins that match with the firing starting at 10,000 yards. Who knows? If the Tiger is close to the beach maybe the Fletcher can put a torpedo or two into it.....